Mom and friend had some trouble, bc it turns out they'd misread the yarn size, so they had to compensate by doubling up the yarn, consequently Mom struggled with her tension at first

and especially while casting on - she cast on way too tight and wasn't happy with it

so this morning, Mom takes out the work she's done and lays it out on the card table to show me what she means about the tension and discuss it through -

Mom's telling me all the problems she finds in her blanket

Chestnut

leaps over the end of the bed

"For ME?"

and onto the card table

Chestnut: SQUISHES HIS PAWS IN

Chestnut: LoAFS!!!

Chestnut: I think it's PURRfect!

transilience - he is CONVINCED

this is OBVIOUSLY for HIM

obviously

is he not the Kitty/

he is. he is very much The Kitty

Mom started laughing "I told [my friend] he was going to do this!" she said. "I said while we were working on them last night, that as soon as I laid the work out..."

Me: Take a picture to send to her!

So Mom did.

I do not have that picture

but I do have one of later in the day when Chestnut again claimed the now pulled apart and reknitted blanket

(I validated Mom's decision to pull the blanket apart and rework it - she really wouldn't have been happy with that cast on as tight as it was)

(the annoyed ears in that second one are because Mikey was trying to bounce at him from the end of the bed)

a VErY happy cat

you should have seen him FLEX his paws

all OOOOOOOOOOH YES THIS IS THE GOODSTUFF

An Eliza challenger approaches!